Lateral thinking, by Brian Eno — 770+ cards, 5 decks, 5 historical editions.
Oblique Strategies has been a creative-unblocking tool since 1975. David Bowie used it on Low. Talking Heads kept a deck in the studio. Coldplay still do. Anyone who's ever hit a wall on a song, a screenplay, a startup pitch, or an engineering problem has an opinion about which card saved them.
Oblique Strategies PRO brings all five historical editions into one app — every card Eno and Schmidt published, 1975 through 2001 — and adds four new decks curated for today's creative disciplines: Game Design (60), Academia (129), Software (253), and Writing (133). 770+ cards total. A card draw, a Lock Screen widget, a haptic tap on your Apple Watch — inspiration at the pace you need it.
Designed, built, and released by the same small team. Available on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Vision Pro. Latest version 1.3.0, shipped 15 April.
